ETF comparison
DFIV vs IEMG
International Total vs International Emerging.
Dimensional International Value ETF · iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFIV and IEMG would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IEMG is 18 bps cheaper than DFIV. On a $100,000 position that's about $180/yr more in fees for DFIV.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with DFIV vs IEMG.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFIV | In IEMG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VALTERRA PLATINUM LIMITED | 0.01% | 0.15% | 0.01% |
Only in DFIV
603 total- SHELL PLC 3.17%
- TOTALENERGIES SE 2.05%
- Banco Santander, S.A. 1.93%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 1.78%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.27%
- BASF SE 1.21%
- SOCIETE GENERALE SA 1.05%
- LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC 1.01%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 1.01%
- BP P.L.C. 1.01%
Only in IEMG
2,666 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 12.49%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 6.80%
- SK hynix Inc. 5.82%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 2.37%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 1.82%
- MediaTek Inc. 1.42%
- DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC. 1.02%
- HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 0.79%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.74%
- CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION 0.71%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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